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[dave_dj]

IPL is a joke but match-fixing in it is serious matter: Miandad
PTIFriday, May 15, 2009 16:58 IST Email
 

Karachi: He may consider the Indian Premier League a joke but former Pakistan captain Javed Miandad feels there is a serious possibility of matches being fixed in the cash-rich Twenty20 event.

Miandad said the league, currently underway in South Africa, has been witness to some surprising results where teams have lost from winning positions.

"There is a definite smell of match-fixing coming from the IPL where strange things are happening," he told the Express newspaper on Friday.

"I don't consider the IPL as cricket, it is a joke. It is strange that players who are not regular bowlers have taken hat-tricks in the league. Teams are losing matches from winning positions," he said.

Miandad feels the International Cricket Council (ICC) needs to step in and check possible corruption in the event.

"If at all such Twenty20 cricket leagues must be held they should be held under the direct supervision of the ICC or else there will always be fear of corruption taking place in matches," he said.

Miandad said it was strange that the ICC's anti-corruption unit was not present in the IPL despite the big money at stake and the number of foreign players involved in the competition.

The IPL orgnanisers rejected an ICC offer to have the anti-corruption unit supervise this year's tournament and have arranged for their own security and anti-corruption officers.

The ICC had asked for USD 1.2 million from the Indian board to cover the costs of their ACU activities in the IPL which was rejected.

"The ICC must stop the IPL because it is already damaging the fabric of the sport and forcing players to change their loyalties," he said.

Miandad, also a former coach of the Pakistan team, cited the example of West Indian captain Chris Gayle, who wants to give up national captaincy.

"He reached England just two days before his country's test against England from the IPL which was I think is an insult to test cricket and the result the West Indies lost badly in the test," he noted.

"I fear that if the ICC does not step in the IPL could also end up damaging the traditional forms of cricket. Already the players are putting money above country. Only the Indian cricket board and its players were gaining from the IPL which has no financial benefits for the other boards."

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?newsid=1256259

[LosingNow]

already posted elsewhere

[Blwe_torch]

This sounds like 'sour-grapes' for Miandad.
Anyway, they live in a very different world.....where time is well-spent gossiping abt India and generally creating an atmosphere of jealousy and hatred.

[dhruvdeepak]

ok dawood bhai

[dextrous]

ok dawood bhai

i think he wants his share

[k-slice]

what a crock of shit!!
i doubt mian-bad would have said things like this if the paki players were allowed to play in the IPL. if i were in any way related to a known terrorist, even through marriage of my own child, i would most definitely stfu when it came to match fixing.

[CLR James]

Javed really takes the cake, doesn't he? I laughed so much that I fell off the chair.

[WicketView]

You always need comedians.

[Libran]

Wonder if he has had a chance to speak with Salim malik, Ijaz Ahmed, Moin Khan, Afridi, Akram and few of his neighbours within his country..

Right from tampering with balls to hibnbbing with criminals and terrorists, that country has done everything that should not be ...

To reiterate... people in glass houses do not undress with the lights on... and in miandad's case, all and sundry will get evidence of  his small thingy